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«Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind»
Author: Charles Fillmore
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Words
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bring forth, dropped, forth, invisible, Seeds, substance, substances
«What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.»
Author: Jonathan Miller
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
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characters, Characters in, literature, novel, sentences, substance, The characters, translation, translations
«Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.»
«We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.»
Author: Les Brown
(Author, Entrepreneur, motivational speaker)
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active, charge, design, destinies, living substance, look for, of our own, substance, substances, take charge
«To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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accidental, advantages, assist, assisted, assisting, assists, commonly, counsel, goodwill, harmony, influence, in harmony, in time, living substance, melodies, melody, practical, substance, substances, sufficient, trifled, trifling, utmost
«When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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Government,
Power
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deprives, destructive, extravagant, honorable, innocent, mouths, perpetuate, perpetuated, perpetuating, substance, usurer, violent, votes
«We are all convention; convention carries us away, and we neglect the substance of things. . . / We dare not call our parts by their right names, but are not afraid to use them for every sort of debauchery.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
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convention, debaucheries, debauchery, neglect, substance
«What is your substance, whereof are you made,That millions of strange shadows on you tend?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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millions, shadows, substance, substances, tend, whereof
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